. >> tonight senator sheldon whitehouse on today's dramatic day of testimony. plus, dan gross of the brady campaign on the heroes fighting for gun safety and the villains who want to keep it the way it is. >>> the republican obsession with european austerity. kneecap the nation's economy. david cay johnston on today's troubling gdp report. >>> bobby jindal breaks his own rule. >> we've got to stop being the stupid party. >> find out how the poor in his state are about to start suffering on friday. >>> and brand-new polling proves again that we're living in a center-left country. tonight i'll tell you why it's up to one person to keep it that way. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. an emotional scene on capitol hill today. former congresswoman gabrielle giffords returned to congress for a senate hearing on gun violence. two years ago, giffords was shot in the head during a shooting spree that killed six people in tucson, arizona. the 71 words gifford spoke today did not come easy for her. but her message is one every american needs to

$400 billion, this movement by students deserves significant attention. >> democratic senator sheldon whitehouseode island speaking last month. in light of the weak climate deal reached at the united nations climate change conference last month in doha, many environmentalist have lock on the fossil fuel divestment campaign as the new frontier in their activism rid they sit in the same spirit as the ongoing campaign of nonviolent civil against keystone xlg pipeline. christian parenti recently wrote, "problems with the math." we're joined by bill mckibben of 350.org and christian parenti. bill was just voted for montter of the year, author of "eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet." he joins us via videostream from his home in vermont christian parenti is author of, "tropic of chaos: climate change and the new geography of violence." we welcome you both to "democracy now!" you, bill. with can you lay out this campaign that 350.org has launched around the country? >> sure. let me say, in this case, 350 and the other groups we're working with are more of the vector than the virus. these are re

congressman henry waxman and sheldon whitehouse.e asking for the white house with these rules in place to prevent climate change. that is what they say. they want to accelerate federal investments in green energy. and they want to a -- they want to lower gas emissions by 2020. what you think? this is a crazy thing i've ever heard. >> what worries me about that letter is the idea that we can do this by executive action. but the president alone is the one with the stroke of th pen that is going to impose these kinds of policies. second, i think perhaps more importantly here, the united states is already leading the world. the international agency said the u.s. is already leading the world in reducing co2 emissions. it's not because of some government programs, but rather because of this. gerri: these are the real culprits when it comes to climate change. greenhouse gas emissions rated the top of the list every single year we met that is the remarkable part about what is happening now. any of the ipc meetings that have happened in the

. >> senator sheldon whitehouse is next from providence rhode island. this book is on virtues quotations and insight to live a full truly american life. >> we were coming on that dreadful field and passing it in the open ranks in the country. we were ragged and we had no shoes. there were less than 8,000 with farms and our hands though they were burned still. this is a book that is a somewhat personal and quirky book, but it's one person's look through history and through what people have said in the past to call out things that have meaning that i think still have meaning in the modern life. i collected things i liked from my own views and then as i got more into it i thought this was an america that i could pass on to my children and i ran on to a college friend and he saw the book and he said you know, this is pretty good. you ought to consider publishing it and he knew an agent and it went from there. so my sore left hand written old book has now been turned into -- and this is my second thing. i started collecting quotes when i was working for the

senator sheldon whitehouse is next. his book is "on virtues: quotations and insight to live a full, honorable, and truly american life". >> we were coming and we were passing through the open ranks of the other day. we were ragged and we had no shoes. gettysburg was bloody and in shreds. there were 8000 of us. this is a book that is a somewhat personal and quirky book. but it is one person's book through history and to what people have said in the past to talk about things that have meaning that i think still have meaning in modern life. i have collected things that i like for my own use. and then as i got more into it, i begin to think that this is something i can pass on to my own children. kenya key new agent, so i wrote to him and i passed it on to him. so my old journal was turned into a book. i started collecting quotes when i was working for the governor. when i went to the u.s. attorney general's office, kept adding to them. reason was twofold. one was to keep a record of things and the other was to talk about t

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sheldon whitehouse the senator from rhode island said i prosecuted a lot of these cases when i was ino i checked the statistics myself. and actually last year, there were 11,700 cases prosecuted. so he says to wayne lapierre that's far from 62 and wayne lapierre says ah -- ah -- ah -- ah -- 62 -- i meant that was just the city of chicago. >> those facts they will get you every time. >> bill: yeah which is probably by the way even low for chicago. and then this woman who said every woman needed an ak-whatever in her home. she talked about this one case where this guy broke in she is in the closet with her kids and she calls her husband and he said shoot, and she shot and wounded the guy. and the gun she has is not banned by senator feinstein's bill. they are lying sobs. ike is down in charleston south carolina. hi, ike. >> caller: hey, brother, i'll get straight to the point. until one of these politicians or until people wake up and realize that we need the australian method to be put into effect, give these people two years to have their guns bought back by the government and after t

senator sheldon whitehouse is next from providence, rhode island. his book is "on virtues: quotations and insights to live a full, honorable, and truly american life." >> we were coming on that dreadful field and we are passing through the open ranks of the superb brigade of infantry. we were bracket and we had no shoes. that banners are army had formed at the heights of gettysburg were bloody and insurance. there were less than a thousand of us with arms in our hand. no, they were bright and burnished steel but this is a book that is somewhat personal and quirky book, but it's one person's look through history, and through what people have said in the past two call of things that have meaning that i think still have meaning in modern life. >> i collected sayings that i'd like for my own use. and then as i got more into, i began to collect them what they thought that this was something i could pass on to my children. and i ran across a college friend, and he saw the book and he said, you know, this is pretty good, you ought to consider publishing it